Alleged shooter in murder-suicide identified

Menifee  The 68-year-old man reported to be the shooter in a murder-suicide Sunday night has been identified as Gerald Pace by the Riverside County Coroner's Office.

Authorities say Pace shot 49-year-old Debra Vandyke after an argument and then shot himself in the front year of a home in rural Menifee

Officers were sent to the home on Merritt Road to investigate a domestic disturbance shortly before 10 p.m., according to a Menifee Police Department news release. Before they arrived, however, dispatchers notified them that shots had been fired at the location, Menifee police Sgt. Jeff Buompensiero wrote in the release.

Upon arriving at the home, which sits on a roughly 4-acre property along a dirt road, officers found a woman and man dead in the front yard in what investigators believe is a murder-suicide.